Chapter 18 The Thugs Following

In the afternoon, the experience store was still deserted.

Zhang Sirui sat on the sofa in the rest area of ​​the experience store with Chen She. Although he didn't say anything, he was a little impatient.

It was so deserted. Isn't it a bit too cold to start?

Zhou Lei, the store manager of this store, was obviously more anxious.

Chen She took him to the prosthetic clinic to repair the mechanical prosthesis some time ago, which touched Zhou Lei very much. He felt that he must run the experience store well and repay Mr. Chen.

Now seeing this deserted situation, he really felt uneasy.

But Chen She was quite satisfied with the current situation. He sat leisurely on the sofa and read the relevant information of the Space Knights in an electronic magazine.

Ever since the Space Knights' mark appeared on this street, Chen She has been interested in this special organization.

Although according to common sense, the Space Knights will mainly choose busy areas with dense traffic, such as landmark buildings in the inner city to carry out activities, and it is unlikely to come to such remote areas to cause trouble. But Chen She still felt that for the sake of safety, he had to grasp as much information as possible about this organization.

At least he had to have a comprehensive understanding of what they were doing and whether they would threaten him.

There was a lot of information about the Space Knights that could be found on the Internet, but most of it was based on rumors and was full of demonized descriptions, which were obviously too false.

Just like the information about the resistance army on the Internet was equally unreliable.

Chen She looked at it and tried to distinguish it, trying to outline the true image of the Space Knights in his mind as much as possible.

At this moment, the young Zhou Lei was a little impatient. He came to Chen She, bent down, and whispered: "Mr. Chen, do you think the content of the electronic billboard at the door should be changed? Or a few of us can go to the nearby area to distribute flyers."

At the door of the experience store, there was a huge electronic billboard with some promotional materials for "Embers Will Go Out".

First of all, there was a huge poster: a knight holding a long sword and with torn clothes was walking towards the wall of the imperial city. In front of him, there are many enemies with hideous and ferocious faces.

There are also some slogans below, such as: "Challenging role-playing Mewtwo", "A noble journey to save the people", etc.

In addition, there are the models of game cabins in the experience store, the prices of the experience store, and the list of playable games, etc.

This is also the standard configuration of most Mewtwo experience stores.

All these contents are displayed on the electronic display screen at the entrance, and players will be naturally attracted after passing by.

But for this new experience store of Lishan Technology, these information have become a factor of dissuasion.

This poster of "Embers Will Go Out" is not particularly dissuading, the key is the information below.

The high-end Mewtwo game cabin and high price directly dissuaded most people on this street. After all, there is a cheap Mewtwo experience store not far away, because it uses cheaper sitting game cabins and game helmets, and the hourly price is only about 1/3 of this place.

What's even worse is that this experience store of Lishan Technology only has one Mewtwo on the game list, which is "Embers Are Going Out", and it's a trial version.

Even if others are willing to spend money to play for an hour or two, they can't find the game they want to play.

"Embers Are Going Out" has not yet been officially launched and can only be played in this store. But people don't think this is a good opportunity to try out the new Mewtwo first, they just worry that they will become the sucker and guinea pig to be slaughtered.

So Zhou Lei is considering whether to change the content on the electronic billboard, even if it's just a title party, to trick people in first.

And considering the problem of insufficient publicity, handing out flyers and attracting people on the street should also have a good effect.

Although this world is technologically advanced and many things have become electronic. But flyers are extremely low-cost and effective after all, so this extremely primitive way of publicity has not been completely eliminated.

Chen She put down the electronic magazine in his hand and glanced at Zhou Lei.

He is really worthy of being a rebel, handing out flyers is a piece of cake.

Chen She was still thinking about how to respond, Zhang Sirui spoke first.

"Mr. Chen, I think handing out flyers is too slow, why not just pull a few people from the street to experience it. After they have experienced it, a good reputation will be formed, and more players will naturally come to the door."

The way Zhang Sirui thought of was more simple and crude.

Chen She said in his heart, haha. Thinking, are you sure that forcibly pulling a few people over will form a good reputation for our Super Dream Experience Store instead of causing greater fear?

Although from the perspective of persuading customers to leave, this seems to be a good idea, but Chen She thinks it is not safe to make too much noise.

It is good to maintain the current deserted state.

So he continued to maintain this calm expression and smiled slightly: "Look, you two are just cast in the same mold. Why are you so impatient? Keep calm."

"Our store has just opened for one morning. As a new store, it is normal to have no customers. You are suddenly making a big fuss now, scaring people away. Not only can you not change the current situation, but it may make it worse. Why bother?"

"Be down-to-earth and keep your heart in your stomach. Good wine needs no bush. Our Mewtwo is so good that it will sooner or later be popular in the whole Dawn City."

"Sit down, sit down."

Although Zhang Sirui, Zhou Lei and others were still a little anxious, they felt a little more at ease when they saw Chen She was so calm in the face of danger. They continued to wait patiently.

Chen She continued to pick up the electronic magazine to read.

He was seeing some key information about the Space-Time Knights.

The Space-Time Knights appeared in the old land about 20 years later than the rebels. However, considering that the rebels were only a small and inferior armed force when they first appeared. So this time difference is not obvious.

After the rebels were extinguished by the big chaebols, the power of the Space-Time Knights surpassed the rebels and became a terrorist organization that made everyone in the old land uneasy.

The big chaebols were not particularly afraid of the rebels. Relatively speaking, they were more afraid of the Space-Time Knights.

The reason is very simple. The rebels only took over the big chaebols as their main goal, acted relatively with a bottom line, and did not really pose a fundamental threat to the big chaebols.

But the Space-Time Knights are a group of out-and-out lunatics. Their goal is not only to kill all the big chaebols, they also want to fundamentally change the whole world.

The ultimate goal is to make all human beings enthusiastically embrace space-time life, change their life forms, and enter a new era!

Seeing this, Chen She felt that the name of the Space-Time Knights was too flattering.

This is definitely a cult!

The former leader of the Space-Time Knights was a Westerner named Epsilon. No information about his life can be found on the Internet. Only some wanted notices and news about him many years ago can be found.

According to the publicly available information, he is a curse scholar with level 7 energy fluctuations. He has been the number one wanted criminal in the entire old land for a long time and is also known as the most dangerous person.

However, the top strongmen among the major chaebols later formed a team and carried out a decapitation operation on him. Since then, the Space-Time Knights have fallen into a state of being leaderless.

But even so, the forces of the Space-Time Knights are still hiding in various major cities, taking every opportunity to destroy and complete Epsilon's legacy.

In addition, there are many different opinions on the Internet about Epsilon's death. As a super-powerful person with level 7 energy fluctuations, or a very special profession such as a curse scholar, many people suspect that Epsilon is just faking his death.

He is very likely to have preserved his spirit or soul through certain means. And he has been trying to influence the real world through various methods.

But this is more like a conspiracy theory, without any actual evidence.

Theoretically, there should be members of the Space Knights in Dawn City, just like Chen She and his resistance army are hidden in Dawn City.

But their number should be relatively small, and it is unlikely that they will openly carry out a series of dangerous activities.

Chen She was relieved a little, feeling that he should not have anything to do with such an extreme organization.

...

Chen She didn't know that Zhou Lei and other experience store employees were not the only ones who were confused and entangled.

In the dark alley opposite the experience store, several gangsters who had been secretly watching the experience store were also in this confused and entangled mood.

These hooligans all have a shark head tattoo on their bodies, and they are members of the Shark Gang.

The Shark Gang and the Jungle Gang, two street gangs, are fighting for control of this street, and there have been frequent frictions recently.

The control of the street, in the final analysis, is to collect protection fees from these shops. Otherwise, how can the gangs support themselves without money after fighting and fighting for so long?

It's just that this store suddenly changed its owner, and it was renovated with great fanfare. On the one hand, the two gangs dared not act rashly, fearing that the other party would pick peaches; on the other hand, they also wanted to fatten up before killing, fearing that they would scare the owner away if they acted rashly.

So these hooligans, under the instructions of their boss, have been lurking nearby and observing the dynamics of the experience store.

They thought that as long as the business of this experience store became hot, they would immediately come to collect protection fees.

For these street gang hooligans, they really can't see how powerful this new store is, and it seems that it is not easy to mess with.

But if they retreat just like this, then they should not be in the underworld.

Most of these street thugs are brainless and rough. What does it mean to act prudently? They don't understand at all.

Moreover, according to common sense, those really powerful chaebols and big companies generally don't come to such places to open stores. Even if they open stores, they will show their muscles at the first time to let others know that they are not easy to mess with and avoid some unnecessary troubles.

And this experience store has been like a standard fat sheep from beginning to end, which is hard not to be tempted.

However, the current situation makes these street thugs very confused.

Their confusion is exactly the same as Zhou Lei and others.

How can this experience store be so deserted?

It doesn't make sense at all!

It stands to reason that a company that has the money to buy a super dream experience store here and has such a beautiful decoration must be in good financial condition.

Before opening a store, there will always be some market research and some preliminary publicity work, right?

Why is it so deserted?

Moreover, after the experience store officially opened, the store manager of this store seemed indifferent to the current situation.

He didn't even think about doing something to save it a little.

It felt like this store was full of evil, which made them a little undecided.

The leader of these gangsters was called Zeng Hailong, with a face full of flesh and strong muscles. He was the only one with a mechanical prosthesis. Although it was only a right hand, it was enough to ensure that he was the absolute protagonist in the street gang melee.

Being called this name in the Shark Gang was enough to show that his strength had been recognized to a certain extent.

A gangster asked: "What should we do? Brother Long, should we wait?"

They had originally expected that this experience store would be heavily promoted as soon as it opened, and they would take this opportunity to kill and extort money.

At that time, the store owner would definitely worry about fighting, driving away customers and ruining business, and the probability of compromise was very high.

Unexpectedly, after a whole morning, there was still no one in the store.

This made this group of gangsters feel very uncomfortable.

Zeng Hailong was also a little depressed. But since he came here, he couldn't just go back empty-handed. If he kept waiting, what if the store was still so deserted after three or five days?

So he thought for a moment and said, "Never mind, let's meet the owner of this store first!"